When Frederick von Mierers first encountered A Search for the Truth, the 1967 book by journalist-turned-psychic Ruth Montgomery, he believed he had found himself reflected in its pages.
The new HBO docuseries Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult uses that moment as an entry point into how a self-styled New Age figure convinced elite 1980s models, and a wider Manhattan social circle, that he was an alien 'walk-in' from Arcturus with advance knowledge of an approaching apocalypse.
